scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1302688

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Authors V. A. Vassiliev

Publication date 1 August 2000

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9707212

zbMATH Keywords

cohomology classesdiscriminant setknot spacessingular knots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Review text

The space of all smooth maps from \(S^1\) into \(\mathbb{R}^n\), minus the discriminant set -- the set of maps that are not embeddings, is exactly the space of knots in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). An interesting problem is to study its cohomology groups. In fact, the well-known Vassiliev invariants, introduced by the author, arise from the zeroth cohomology of the space with \(n=3\). This paper introduces a new method for computing such groups. The main results can be summarized in the following abstract of the paper. ``We propose a new method of computing cohomology groups of spaces of knots in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), \(n\geq 3\), based on the topology of configuration spaces and two-connected graphs, and calculate all such classes of order \(\leq 3\). As a byproduct we define the higher indices, which invariants of knots in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) define at arbitrary singular knots. More generally, for any finite-order cohomology class of space of knots in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) we define its principal symbol, lying in the cohomology group of a certain finite-dimensional configuration space and characterizing our class modulo classes of smaller filtrations. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0910.00021].

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